Giovani Lo Celso opened, Lautaro Martinez added a penalty, and then Lionel Messi did the inevitable in the eightieth minute, scoring in a reported seventh consecutive World Cup match. Mousa Al-Taamari grabbed a goal for Jordan, a proud moment on a steep night, but Argentina were always in control.

The champions topped Group J on nine points and barely broke a sweat. The story, as it so often is, was Messi quietly stapling another record to a career already overflowing with them, this time on a stage where he keeps writing the same gorgeous sentence.

Jordan can be proud. They scored against the world champions and competed with spirit. But this was Argentina shifting through the gears and one man turning a routine win into another line for the history books.